abolitionism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/25/2021
  

  A Monument Honoring Brooklyn Abolitionists Stalls Under Scrutiny

  “Whatever we build in Downtown Brooklyn should rival the Statue of Liberty,” said Raul Rothblatt, who has fought to preserve the area’s history for nearly 20 years. He added: “But instead, the city is planning to build a dog park above where tunnels once connected abolitionist homes.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/6/2020
  

  ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is Good TV. But Mix Art and Slavery at Your Peril

  Critic Carvell Wallace writes of the new television adaptation of James McBride's novel that trying to make entertainment out of the subject matter of slavery is an impossibility in 2020.

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• 12/22/19
  

  An Abolitionist and the Christmas Tree

  by John Buehrens

  Christmas, in 1835 Boston, was not yet widely celebrated. New England’s Puritan heritage considered it “popish.”

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• 9/1/19
  

  The Fight against Climate Change Must Become the New Abolitionism

  by Erik Curren

  Why has it taken so long for the climate movement to accomplish so little? And, since the clock is ticking to curb runaway global heating, how can we do better in the future?

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• 2/16/18
  

  What You Don't Know About Abolitionism: An Interview with Manisha Sinha on Her Groundbreaking Study

  by Robin Lindley

  Her new book, "The Slave's Cause," rewrites the history of abolitionism. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-30-15
  

  Was Abolitionism a Failure?

  by Jon Grinspan

  The movement didn’t end slavery; the Civil War did.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10-29-13
  

  A Kind Word for Ted Cruz: America Was Built on Extremism

  by Michael Kazin

  How unpopular opinions move history forward.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  3-6-13
  

  New Hampshire to consider honoring a 233-year-old petition from slaves seeking freedom

  CONCORD, N.H. — When 20 slaves petitioned New Hampshire two centuries ago seeking their freedom, lawmakers decided the time wasn’t right and delayed action.Now, 233 years later, legislators in one of the nation’s whitest states have decided the time is right to consider the request. A Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously recommended the full body posthumously emancipate the 14 petitioners who never were granted freedom.Woullard Lett, a member of the Manchester NAACP, said it’s never too late to right a wrong....

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• "Django Unchained's" White Abolitionist Vision

  by Stephen Kantrowitz

  Jamie Foxx as Django Freeman in Django Unchained.No one could possibly mistake Quentin Tarantino for William Lloyd Garrison, but the director's Django Unchained nevertheless belongs to the tradition of antebellum white abolitionism. The film powerfully evokes a South, and a people, entirely under the sway of slaveholders' sadistic passions. This intellectual lineage explains why its depiction of slavery is so potent, and so wrong.